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Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Hard Truth From Orlando

LOSERS AWARDED $2.25 MILLION DOLLARS FORBEING LOUSY PARENTS

“It was a mistake of the parents to not remember the kidsmight be in the car, but that's what the professionals arethere for, to save you from those basic everyday mistakes."(From ABC news article)

What a crock of crap. The three families whose unsupervisedchildren died when they got trapped in the trunk of their ownCamry on their own property and the bodies weren’t foundfor days have been awarded $2.25 million dollars because theCamden police didn’t find their kids for them.

All right, the police didn’t follow all the “search forchildren” protocols. They might have found them if allprotocols had been followed – already dead probably,but they didn’t and the bodies weren’t discovered untildays later. Of course, if the parents had opened their eyes,quit the handwringing, and gone out to look, they’d havefound them too – and probably still alive.

What did the parents fail to do? Well – how abouteverything? They failed to train their children inappropriate places to play. They failed to have someonekeeping the children within earshot or line-of-sight whilethey played. They failed to keep the children from goingplaces where they couldn’t readily be seen by an adult.When they didn’t see or hear their children, they didn’tdo an immediate and complete search – particularlyknowing their own children’s habits and proclivities.Instead, they sat back, went hysterical, and waited for thepolice to figure out where their untrained, unsupervisedmiscreants had wobbled off to.

Too bad about the kids. This kind of crappy, disinterestedparenting is epidemic in America and become worse sincethe influx of immigrants with the “it takes a community toraise a child” mentality. Yeah, it takes a community, but firstthe kid is supposed to have a parent, whose priority is thesafety, training and well-being of the child they bred so theycan be a positive influence in the community and not acommunity burden. And because these parents oftimesaren’t legally married or have some pretty loosey-gooseyliving arrangements with “cousins” and “friends” whoselast names they don’t even know, you’ve got a pretty goodidea of what kind of self-awareness and discipline the parentshave – never mind what they instill in their children.

So now we reward these piss-poor excuses of parents bygiving them money, on top of whatever social services andwelfare moneys they were receiving for not taking care oftheir children, and simultaneously reinforcing the “blamethe cops because I acted like an idiot” mentality rife inAmerica.

But I don’t feel like the parents have really profited.These people are born losers. You could give them thekeys to the National Treasury and they’ll blow it. Butmaybe they’ll take that 2.25 million dollars and get someparental training to go along with their grief counseling.And maybe they’ll buy enough mirrors so they can plainlysee who to blame for the loss of their children, instead ofpointing the fingers at everyone else.

The cops, who take responsibility seriously and who failedto find these children, will punish themselves forever. I’mglad I wasn’t there. But you know it doesn’t take a lawsuitto get the attention of a responsible person. It just takes anin-your-face failure, someone else to pay for your mistakeand you’ll never forget what you failed to do. And I don’tthink that’s something those poor excuses for parents willever learn however much money we throw at them.